The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-09-08
PENCIL RGINALIA--FOR sun
DAY READING.
BY II. F. NJ
Especial Cor. STATE CHRONICLE.

Especial Cor. STATE CHRONICLEl
Who would ever have thought of seek
ing archaic information in the Georgia
Scenes" Yet, there, in the concluding
sentences of the chapter entitled The
Turn Out" (of the school master) | find
the following in relation to the ORruoEPICs
of famous name i'll politics and letters:
by the way, the name of st. John was
always pronounced ''SINJIN' by the COM
mon people of that day; and so it must
have been by Lord Bolingbroke himself
else his friend Pope would never have ad-
dressed him in line so unmusical as
Awake, my ST. JOHN, leave all meaner
things"
Nor would Swift, the friend and com
panion of both, have written,
What St Johns skill in state affairs,
What Ormoud's Nalor, Oxford's cares
Where folly, pride, and faction sway,
Remote from ST. JOHN, Pope, and Gray"
Considering the exactions as to cadence
and metre made by the Pope school, and
rejecting how broad "ST JOHN would
dislocate, while ''SINJIN' would contribute
To the metrical symmetry of the verses,
strongly incline TO support the theory of
the ancient pronunciation,
While engaged on a branch of etymologv,
| venture to notice, in passing, the obiec-
ton of our friend hlouut of the WILSON
''MiRROR TO the word ''resurrected," 50
often used, he says, by ministers Of the
gospel without lexicographal warrant
quite agree with Brother Is. that the word
Is not to be found in our dictionaries, but
! by no means concur in his conclusion
that THEREFORE it should be disused 1t
~ ftrj rl
word ''RISEN" does not supply lis place.
for that does not imply a FORMER burial;
nor yet do ''resurgENT' or 'resurgING,
for they also imply MERELY some PRESENT
condition orquallty, while ''RESURRECTED'
applies most happily to a present., as de
rived from a past state; and if there is any
Synonyme for ''RESURRECTEDn Christ
which will give IN ONE EXPRESSION. the
Christians regret for II i'm that was dead
and buried" ALONG WITH his triumphal
alteration OF Him that rose tne third day,
according TO the Scripture, y l cannot CON
eeiYe Of it.
APRopus THE ABOVE. where do the die
tlOuary men get their authority for plac-
ing REsURGENT AND RESURGING among adj
mtted wordsl COLERIDGE is the authority
they cite-and very good one-but who
made Coleridge a judge9 So far as | am
aware, he was no photographer, but if he
We're, THAT would not have empowered
him 10 coin words AID. LIB The truth is
that the words got place in the dictionary
because Coleridge had seen proper to use
them, and Coleridge's authority was not
under any royal monopoly making Ann a
nlnter Of language, but that Of any sutIi-
llently Informed man, to coin new words,
by various combinations of the original
forms, as the eXigencieS of expression
might demand. By the general allowance
of this privilege, to all competent persons
our language has become, and will grow
to be, rich and expansive, while idiomatic
and individualized, without having to con
stantly borrow from tongues that should
be indebted to us.
am not given 10 charges of plagiarism.
| know how very natural il is for the same
combination of circumstances, or the same
provOcatlves to thought, to evoke almost
identical ideas, conveyed frequently in
almost id lent cal forms of expression. Dis
cardirg tLis intimation, then, have often
remarked the perslStency with which some
idea or fancy has repeated itself at differ
ent times, often establishing "a claim to
POSITIVE originality from the intervals be
tween its last and former prlduotiun. To
/ .iittSildlct StEi|ost tlOttlu2 las tttt
more admired, or thought by the world
at large Gncluding Lord Byron. quite prob
/ ably to be more original than the conclud
| ing lines of his Lordship's MOnody on Sher-
| idan-among the finest in any language
vain,
And turn 70 all of him which may remain.
! Signing that Nature formed but one such
man,
u hr, bot tho n tn J,Ii
How it chances that Jean jacques Rous
seau, years before that time, Il. e. when
these lines were written) not knowing thai
a nobleman would wish to appropriate the
thought, had said in his CONFESSIONS, II
at least claim originality, and WHETHER
NATURE DID wIsELYIN BREAKING THE MOULI
WITH WHICH SHE FORMED Me, can only b,
determined after reading this work.
That his Lordship would not have CONSCI
| npSLY borrowed from such a plebean a.
Jean Jacques Is quite natural Inference
from his patriclan proclivities, but as Jean
PER CONTRA, as he takes pains to assur
us, would steal anything from anybody
we are next encountered by this difficulty
| In Massigner's PARLIAMENT OF LOVE Occu
the Words:
MATURE despairing ere to make the like
| Brake suddenly the MOULD in which
twas fashioned.
And still further back We have the line
of Lord Surrey to his lady yelove:
Il could rehearse, if that would
The whole effect of NATURES plaint,
When she had lost the perfect MOULD,
The like to whom she could not paint
With wringing hands how did she cry.
And this was chiefly all her plain,
She could not make the like again"
Now here we have case Of several pos
ible recaptures, and if the Lordly Byro
found in the hands of the low thief Jat
ques, goods stolen by him, through tn
} connivance of Massinger, from the higf
born Sidney, why were not those good
sat home"-as the law phrase is-in tn
long descended Byron, PER PRIvILEGIU,
by right of cAsrE'
| Who of the readers of PENCIL MARGIN.
LA can give the authors of the followin
familiar quotations.:
a. 1.-The light that never was on sea
land"
3 (2.) "The steep where Fame's prou
temple shines afar."
: CD ''The School Master is abroad"
' They are so familiar that-who know
| their OriOin2